Melbourne

Inspection went fine! Actually had the senior PM come, instead of the newbie from last time. Senior PM said newbie was wrong about the law regarding downlights, lol, and that it does in fact require an electrician that the RE will send out to change 😂 newbie told us it's the tenants responsibility, but didn't realise the difference between a screw in bulb and downlights LOL!

so after a year of not having kitchen lights, and six months of not having a normal bathroom one, the RE is gonna get that fixed for us. Senior PM apologised profusely and said we weren't the only tenants that were given the incorrect info either.

I couldn't stop laughing! I'm not even mad 😂

Had to attend an emergency meeting with the CTO of a client and explain why we fucked up without any forewarning.

Phone interview went well. Have a teams interview on Friday!!

Big work meeting this afternoon. I mean BIG, there's a lot on the line. I'm as prepared as I can be and a bit more prep this morning. I was feeling super nervous about it yesterday. Calmer on waking up this morning but the nerves are coming back. Deep breaths help - I will be fine, it will go fine.

Meeting over! 2.5 hours later, I'm so exhausted. There was a few times I felt like I was giving garbled answers to questions asked on the spot, and also being in full focus for that long is pretty tough. But overall I think I presented and communicated well. Client seemed happy too so that's what counts.

I think I deserve a takeaway pizza tonight and a night off any cooking.

New ball. Long throws and crazy bounce.

Sunset gallahs

I laugh everytime I see a post on AustralianSpiders, where OP posts a picture of a black spider with a red stripe and asks "iS tHiS a ReDbAcK????"

The clue is in the name, my guy 😂😂😂

And yes, it was, and she's gravid - enjoy OP! 😂😂

Guess who is obsessed this year

while you slept the south korea president did a failed coup

About 6kg of cherries have now been picked. Probably that much again left on the tree if I was feeling enthusiastic enough to pick them.

Now I need to work out what to do with them - they are cooking cherries (morello), not sweet eating cherries. I'll probably just pit & freeze them for now and do some baking later.

I'm just fucking exhausted. That's all. I go to bed exhausted, wake up too early, exhausted.

Today is the day I'm gonna have a zillion coffees and get shit done cos it's gonna be hot the next 3 days. Just have to get off the couch now.

Goodnight all ❤️

Office xmas party tomorrow night. I'm going to have a couple of quick shots and a gin and tonic to settle in. Let's see how it plays out lol

I bought two punnets of lettuce seedlings. They seem to do well for me and we eat them up. Other garden stuff is doing well too. Mostly tidying really.

and the young Seagoons will be coming to Australia in 10 days to stay with us 🙂 I better get everything ready. So excite.

Some good points in this video about the social media ban https://aussie.zone/post/15770886

Cherries are all pitted and in the freezer.

Basil has been trimmed and moved into it's new pots. The one at the front doesn't look to have a good root system, which is why it is trimmed so much - I won't be surprised if it just dies anyway. The other two had good healthy roots, so I expect big things from them! The trimmed leaves have been chopped up and frozen in oil in ice cube trays.

My manager said I'm good to work from home this week until my ankle heals up. It's the sort of thing that puts you in that weird spot where I can work but I can't deal with the hassle of getting to the office.

I'll arrange a tele-appointment to get an x-ray referral just to make sure nothing's wrong as it still hurts

Might try to angle going home at lunch due to not feeling well... Barely slept last night

Finished S3 of the Taskmaster Australia. Really grown fond of the show was looking forward towards S4. Found out that David Hughes will be on it, and it's completely killed my excitement for it.

::: spoiler The patch

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Seems like being away for a month didn't impact shit too heavily. No ferts in the last month either and the watering seems alright with no drama / edema. Phew.

That piece of mind the watering sys. gives is priceless.

Also saw about a dozen ladybugs so aphids are a non issue (for now).

Lots of smaller self sown chilli plants from last year just popping up now was a nice surprise.

Many extremely nervous presenters at this conference. Buck up people you have really interesting things to say!!

Morning plans: mow grass. remove excessive amount of fennel from the front garden. plant some volunteer cherry tomato seedlings along the front fence. pot up some basil plants from the supermarket in the hope they can regrow. somewhere in there I should do washing too.

Edit: I need to add "pick cherries" to the list.

ahahah oh god.

Client: YOU NEVER SENT US IP DATA FOR THIS UNIT. HOW DARE. WE *DEMAND *THE DATA.

Dude. It was configured according to the ip addresses you sent us

My zucchini have two fullblown flowers now, they’re both male flowers but more are budding.